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. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Pre- mium fop sending us TWO new subscpibers to the Amepiean Bee Joupnal fop one yeap (with $2); OP, one Tested Queen fpee as a ppemium fop sending us FOUR new subscpibeps with $). We have arranged with one of the oldest and best queen-breed- ers (having many years' experience) to rear queens for us the coming season. His bees average quite a good deal the longest tongues of any yet measured. The Breeder he will use is direct from Italy, having imported her himself. Her worker-bees are large, somewhat leather-c
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Pre- mium fop sending us TWO new subscpibers to the Amepiean Bee Joupnal fop one yeap (with $2); OP, one Tested Queen fpee as a ppemium fop sending us FOUR new subscpibeps with $). We have arranged with one of the oldest and best queen-breed- ers (having many years' experience) to rear queens for us the coming season. His bees average quite a good deal the longest tongues of any yet measured. The Breeder he will use is direct from Italy, having imported her himself. Her worker-bees are large, somewhat leather-colored, very gentle, and scarcely requiring veil or smoke, (if-mi They stored red clover honey last season. f*^A All queens guaranteed to arrive in good condition, and all will be f^^ clipped, unless otherwise ordered. (<4t^ CASH PRICES of these fine queens will be as follows • Untested K^, $ each ; Tested, $ each. Send all orders to f<AlA GEORGE W. YORK & CO. ^ 144 & 146 Epie St., CHICAGO, ILL. (^ u]) all their stores, and I have lost 13 colonies through spring dwindling, and expect to lose more. I have been feeding, but the bees are not there to build up. I think there is no better country in the Tnited States for all purposes than the Chero- kee Nation country. R. X. C' Cherokee Nation. Ind. May is. The Weather Hard on Bees. My bees were in splendid condition in March, breeding up strong, and they worked three days on maple blossoms, the trees hav- ing the finest amount of bloom on them that I ever remember seeing, the blossoms being as large as peach-blossoms. But suddenly it turned cold, and thousands of the poor little bees were caught napping, they could not get to their hires, and perished. The frost killed all of the bloom that was far enough advanced to be affected, and all through the greater part of April we had cold rains and frosty weather, then there was a great profusion of fruit-bloom; but the bees did not seem to be strong
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Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectbees, bookyear1861